Captain America needs buffs

[-Armageddon-]

I get the idea of Cap, being the high mobility tank that comes in, dumps his cooldowns, boxes a bit, and bounces. Flexing between frontline and backline, peeling for teammates, and assisting with dives at times, but lets be honest here, he does have issues and right now he feels like in between a duelist and a vanguard, but it doesn't take much to get him fixed.

First of all its the obvious fact that besides his block he has 0 heals and 0 shielding skills, nothing at all besides relying on healers and health packs and you might say " but he is fast" well sure but skilled players will kill you regardless. So lets see first what glaring issues he has and how to fix him.
1. The cooldown between raising and lowering his shield is bogus and needs to be either removed to reduced from 1sec to 0.25sec
2. His shield that has 400hp brakes down way too easy and needs to be at least 500hp-600hp, and also the protection radius should be increased by at least 20% so he can actually protect somebody else behind or close to him besides himself (obvious i know)
3.He does not do nearly enough dmg. Even with Thor teamup, dumping a full combo does not guarantee a kill. This is unacceptable, especially if you burn all your cd's. Which leads me to the super soldier slap ridiculous 12 sec CD for such low dmg skill that is actually a gap closer, it needs to be lowered from 12 sec to 10 sec.
4. A major issue that basically only Cap struggles with in this game is that he is basically incapable of solo tanking effectively. All of the other Vnaguards can do at least a passable job, but not Cap. I get that he is supposed to be an offtank, but it leads to imbalance.

I want Cap to be good. He just isn't right now. If you get good results, and you junk hours on end of him, then all the more power to you. But he is just in dire need of some buffs.

[AAAkaneAAA]

Agree. Needs buff. He's great fun and I love that he plays as you would expect him too: running around striking terror and getting stuck in. Just isn't powerful enough.

[-Armageddon-]

Originally posted by AAAkaneAAA:

Agree. Needs buff. He's great fun and I love that he plays as you would expect him too: running around striking terror and getting stuck in. Just isn't powerful enough.

Exactly, especially the 1sec cd on the shield and 12 sec on the slam

[Hollowquinn]

100% agree!!! I recently started playing CA to learn how to Tank and Dive and it just depressing how untanky he is. Cap needs to have a Dmg boost of at least 15% and increase his hitbox so that he can ACTUALLY HIT a mobile target other than Groot and Hulk, his shield throw during his primary attack needs to be increased from 4 to 5 or 6, his shield needs to lose the CD entirely especially when depleted and it's health needs to be raised for sure to 600 instead of 400, and his ult needs to be changed entirely the Freedom Charge is useless cause noone utilizes the bonus health and pushes up woth Cap when it's activated instead they actively avoid the damn thing so just change it to be a health and damage boost for Cap alone or make his shield do something insane like multiple ricochet and deal huge damage to multiple enemies.